If you believe the folks at Esquire magazine, Seattle only has one bar worth writing home about: Sambar, a tiny Ballard bar known for having good cocktails and, well, for being tiny.

Sambar is the only Seattle bar to make Esquire’s 2011 compilation of the best bars in America. There are a total of 169 bars on the list.

Adding insult to injury, Esquire didn’t even bother with much of a writeup on Sambar, briefly opining: “With four stools and six tables the size of welcome mats, this tiny, hard-to-find mixology den could have been the bar on the Moonraker. Bring a date.”

Double cupping on your morning cup of Joe will be a thing of the past if some activists have anything to say about it.

And so will paper cups in general.

Seattleite Karin de Weille recently launched an ambitious campaign to banish disposable cups from the everyday routines of people all over the city. She believes quitting to-go cups is a lot like detoxing from any addiction: The first few weeks are the hardest.

British police had a codename for President Barack Obama during his recent trip to the UK, and it means “smart alec.” Scotland Yard officials say the codename “Chalaque” was generated randomly by computer. The Punjabi word is “sometimes used when we want to denigrate someone who we think is too clever for their own good,” […]
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Please, hold the “Napoleon Dynamite” jokes until the end. Two baby ligers at Xixiakou Wildlife Zoo in Shangdong, China, are being nursed by a dog, completing a rare three-species intermingling. Apparently, the ligers’ mother rejected them and two other siblings. The other two cubs died, but the dog, who has two puppies of her own, […]
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